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About 20 percent of all nanotechnology research activity in the United States takes place in the South, and North Carolina is leading the pack, according to a report released Tuesday by the Southern Growth Policy Board.

North Carolina leads the South - a classification that includes 13 board member states and Puerto Rico - in the number of nanotechnology publications at 1,134, the report says, and is tied with Virginia for the largest number of nanotechnology grants from the National Science Foundation at 139.

The state also leads the region in terms of total funding for nanotechnology from the NSF with more than $53 million.

North Carolina claims two of the board's Top 25 nanotech publishing universities in North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and leads the region in the number of dissertations on nanotechnology published statewide at 122.

Based in Research Triangle Park, the Southern Growth Policy Board is a public policy think tank formed in 1971. Its members include North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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